"The SMIC 65-, 55-, and 40nm LL logic processes are very popular with our mobile phone and consumer electronics customers," said Tian-Shen Tang, Vice President of Design Services at SMIC. "Kilopass NVM IP on our low-leakage processes provides designers of consumer home electronics and mobile phone SoCs another NVM IP choice for their high-volume designs. The low-leakage processes combine improved performance and reduced power consumption with increased design possibilities and cost efficiencies."

The JEDEC qualification procedure on the SMIC low-leakage CMOS processes subjected Kilopass IP to standard high temperature operating life (HTOL) and high temperature storage life (HTSL) tests. These tests assure SoC designers that Kilopass IP is reliable for over 10 years of operation. The HTOL qualification tests perform a continuous read operation while the memory is subjected to an elevated supply voltage and subjected to a temperature of 125 degrees Celsius. The HTSL test, another JEDEC standard test for predicting device reliability, bakes the Kilopass IP at 150 degrees Celsius unbiased for 1000 hours. During the bake, the NVM memory contents are read at 0, 168, 500, and 1000 hours to confirm data retention.

"We are pleased with our ongoing partnership with SMIC to enable our customers' OTP solutions to achieve product differentiation and faster time-to-market," said Linh Hong, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Kilopass. "Low-power 65nm, 55nm and 40nm are critical nodes for mixed-signal technology. We are seeing increasing demand for OTP at these nodes in multiple fields, from wireless connectivity to video decoding products."

AvailabilityKilopass OTP NVM memory IP has completed JEDEC 3-lot qualification and is available for the following SMIC processes: 40nm, 55nm, 65nm, 130nm, and 180nm. For more details, please contact sales@kilopass.com.

About KilopassKilopass Technology, Inc., a leading supplier of embedded NVM intellectual property, leverages standard logic CMOS processes to deliver one-time programmable (OTP) and many-time programmable (MTP) memory. With 58 patents granted or pending and more than 800,000 wafers shipped from a dozen foundries and Integrated Device Manufacturers (IDMs), Kilopass has more than 150 customers in applications ranging from storage of firmware and security codes to calibration data and other application-critical information. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. For more information, visit www.kilopass.com or email info@kilopass.com. Follow Kilopass on Twitter at https://twitter.com/kilopass_.

About SMICSemiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (NYSE: SMI) (SEHK: 981) is one of the leading semiconductor foundries in the world and the largest and most advanced foundry in mainland China, providing integrated circuit (IC) foundry and technology services at 0.35-micron to 40-nanometer. Headquartered in Shanghai, China, SMIC has a 300mm wafer fabrication facility (fab) and a 200mm mega-fab in Shanghai, a 300mm mega-fab in Beijing, a 200mm fab in Tianjin, and a 200mm fab project under development in Shenzhen. SMIC also has customer service and marketing offices in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Taiwan, and a representative office in Hong Kong. In addition, SMIC manages and operates a 300mm wafer fab in Wuhan owned by Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation.

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